BUSINESS
Must Britain’s authorities provide an in-out referendum on EU membership?
By Bagehot
DESPITE stiff competitors from local and mayoral election outcomes spirited almost 200 local authorities all over England, Wales and Scotland, Peter Mandelson, the ragged Labour cabinet minister, co-inventor of Blairism and ex-European Union commerce commissioner, is made up our minds to receive headlines this afternoon by calling for Britain to abet an in-out referendum on EU membership.